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mikel, If the Charles Tolliver is the small-group set -- Mosaic Select 20 -- then I would like to buy it. Pls confirm, and I'll get payment to you. Thanks! EDIT - PM also sent.

Seems like musicians like Legrand hardly exist any more, that particular combination of talents and the ways that he put them to use. So sorry to hear this news. R.I.P. I'll give Legrand's wonderful collaboration with Stan Getz, Communication '72, a spin this weekend in his honor.

Yep, you're right, sambrasa. Liebman is incredibly prolific. I remember back in the 1980s David Murray seemed to release another record each week. Now Lieb's doing it. That said, I get the sense that Fire is a special record, not just another one that Liebman "cranked out." He wrote all of the compositions. He brought in the heavyweight rhythm sections. From the outside, it has "major release" written all over it. Then again, I haven't even heard the record (other than samples), so what the heck do I know?!??! BTW: I hadn't made the connection with First Visit. Good call.

Terrific record. Lots of Moody flute!

Jackie McLean - Jacknife (Blue Note) Amazing that this incredible music sat on the shelf for a decade before it was released.

You'll get no disagreement from me on that point.

O.K. Fair enough. We are who we are. I guess I'm a (non-dogmatic) enthusiast at heart. From the Online Etymology Dictionary: enthusiasm (n.) c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (from PIE root *dhes-, forming words for religious concepts). It acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion through the conceit of special revelation from God" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized meaning "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716.

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - The Scenic Route (Palmetto, 2007) Despite the (ironically?) dour Matt Wilson cover photo, this is music with a smile on its face. You might even call it whimsical. I dig it. Sadly, R.I.P. Dennis Irwin.

Oh boo!!! Sure, I buy "hard work and openness." But if I were to follow your rationalist line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you could say that music is physics. Vibrating reeds and drum heads and hammers striking strings producing sound waves. So one could argue that music is actually physics even more than it's hard work and openness and methodology. But again WHY we listen to music has nothing to do with physics -- even though physics provides the most purely rational description of what's happening in the world when we listen. I still think we listen to music because of the way that it makes us feel -- whether we'd like to think of our experience of music in rational terms or otherwise. If music didn't get under our skin or grab us or transport us or captivate us (metaphors all!), we'd be doing something else! Instead, we spend hours each day on this board, reading & writing about music! Not music methodologies or physics or openness. MUSIC. ... And that poke at ghost for digging Roy Haynes and his cowboy hat is a rabbit punch, a low-blow. I freely admit that I'd be thrilled to be in the same room as Roy Haynes. Any day of the week. Roy freakin' Haynes. He's immortal! Of course, he isn't. But he is.

Oh, come on Jim. You know what ghost means by "magic." You love music, just like all of us here. The styles that send us may vary. But we're all looking for that thing. The chariot ride to heaven. The hair standing up on the back of your neck. A glimpse of the beyond -- or the inner world. Call it whatever you want; they're ALL metaphors. But that's why we keep listening. It's NOTHING to do with "methodology." As for New York, you can dislike it. Fine. Whatever. But music "magic" -- don't tell me you don't know what he's talking about.

The 1992 recordings are very, very good -- but the stuff from '76 is absolutely AMAZING. As on the Mosaic set, you have to make some allowances for the quality of the recorded sound. But the music is just extraordinary... I'm grateful to have it despite the less-than-ideal fidelity. EDIT: To sample on YT, click here.

More from "The Liebrach": Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach - The Duo Live: 1976-1990 (Vaju Productions) Liebman self-released this set, an expanded version of the duo recordings on their Mosaic Select set. What was a single disc in the Mosaic set amounts to 4 hours of music here. ... I'm now listening to cuts from '76 recorded at the Keystone Korner. Absolutely brilliant music, imho. ghost, do the liner notes explain the knot on Dolphy's forehead in that photograph? Just wondering...

Dave Liebman - Fire (Jazzline, 2 CDs, released April 2018) with Kenny Werner, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette This isn't exactly a "new release" anymore, since it came out nine months ago. But I'm posting it here anyway -- because it likely flew under the radar of many Lieb fans, including me! I only discovered it yesterday. I am STOKED. How about that supporting cast!!! It's hard to imagine a heavier rhythm section. All four musicians are among my all-time favorites. Has anyone heard it? I haven't (yet) -- but it's going straight to the top of my "to get" list.

Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach - Unspoken (Outnote, 2011)

Mark Helias - Attack the Future (Enja, 1992) First listen. Just got this CD today.

Larry Willis Trio - The Big Push (HighNote, 2006) with Buster Williams and Al Foster

Last night: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick (1968) First time that I'd ever seen this film in a theater, which is crucial for the full effect. It leaves a much, MUCH longer-lasting impression when seen on the big screen.

Snagged these today at a local shop: Mark Helias - Attack the Future (Enja) with Michael Moore, Herb Robertson, a.o. Marc Copland - Softly... (Savoy) Larry Willis Trio - The Big Push (HighNote) with Buster & Al Foster

John Coltrane - Meditations (Impulse) Last night I finished reading John Nisenson's Ascension: John Coltrane & His Quest. The book ends on a sour note with Nisenson expounding on all the reasons why jazz after Coltrane isn't worthwhile. Those sorts of broad, generalized cultural proclamations were the least helpful aspect of the book. That gripe aside, most of the book focused on the specifics of Coltrane's music and thinking. I'd provisionally recommend the book to Coltrane-philes for that reason. A final THANK YOU! to felser for graciously sending me the book.

Two of Santana's best, imho.

Larry Willis

Larry Willis with Cecil McBee and Gary Bartz - Steal Away (Audioquest, 1992) 5 stars.

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